Provisional specification : improvements in and connected with lavatories and like washing apparatus / Edmund Hunt.

  • Hunt, Edmund.
Date:
[1898]
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Credit: Provisional specification : improvements in and connected with lavatories and like washing apparatus / Edmund Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Improvements in and connected with Lavatories and like Washing Apparatus. spring may be applied for opening or for closing tlie valve, or the ineclianism for opening may be arranged so that its v/eigiit when not held by a catcli may close or open the valve. The valve may be on the lower end of a curved rod guided so as when di'awn up to move 'tlie valve away from its seat. Ur the valve ma,y be moved by means of a handle or by means at a treadle connected 5 to it by a beilcrank or in an equivalent manner. My invention comprise® also- improved water-supply fittings for the lavato^ry. In tliese a metal box has connected to its under side hot water and cold water supply pipes to which are applied screw-down valves the handle spindles of which extend upwards through stuiiing boxes. In the middle of the box there is a ]0 conical seating preferably of wide angle for a plug formed at the bottom of a short hollow column and having two ways in it, of which one, is for communicating with a spout delivering into the basin, whilst the other is for communicating •' with the interior of the column. Either communication is open according to the position of the column the other being then closed. The top of the column has 15 attached to it by a horizontal swivelling plug joint a curved pipe, which at its outer end has formed on or fixed to it a hollow conical plug, preferably of wide angle, formed with two ports or sets of ports. There is htted to turn on the plug a conical socket or seat formed in the interior of a bell-shaped piece having fixed to it a central nozzle, and an annular perforated plate. In one position of the 20 bell the central nozzle receives water through the plug, and in another position the water has access to the perforated plate. When the column is turned with the curved pipe to the back, water is delivered into the basin; but when the column is turned to bring the cuiwed pipe forwards water has, access through the column and pipe to the bell, and by adjusting the bell can be made to issue as a 25 central stream or douche or as a shower. The curved pipe can be turned in the top of the column so as to place the bell iu a vertical horizontal or inclined position. Eor only a cold water or single water supjdy the parts may be simplified, separate stop valves giving communication, one to the basin spout and the other 30 to the curved arm and bell. Dated this Twenty-fifth day of November 1897. EDMUND HUNT, Applicant’s Agent OOMULETE 8rEClEICATT0N. Improvements in and connected with Lavatories and like Washing Apparatus* I, John Shanks, of Tubal Works,, Bairhead, in the County of lieirfrew, North Britain, Sanitary Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be perfoimed, to be particularlv dt^scjdbed and 40 ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say: — :My said invention compiises various improvements in and connected with lava¬ tories and like washing apparatus, and has for its object increased convcni(‘nce and other advantages in use, with economy in construction, and facility in fitting ut), in cleaning, and in repairing. ^ And in order that my said invention and the maunei- of performino- the same may be properly understood I hereunto append two sheets of explanatoay drawings to be hereinafter referred to and showing my improvements. In these drawingi^